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08/18 [GEEK] Note to self: Ruby has no ++ operator — I don’t know why it don’t. I don’t know why the error message doesn’t just say: “Hey dope, Ruby has no ++ operator” Originally posted on Apr 13, 2007. Reprinted courtesy of ReRuns plug-in.
08/17 Mysteries of printing Mac OS X Address Book labels — Apple always, or almost always, thinks through the user interface carefully and includes all kinds of deft and elegant touches that delight and amaze users. Not always though. Sometimes there’s a crazy quilt of magic and cleverness that is totally baffling. Originally posted on Feb 15, 2008. Reprinted courtesy of ReRuns plug-in.
08/16 Harper’s on torture — Came across this interesting article. You may agree or not, but it’s definitely interesting: > “So now the process can be fully diagrammed, and the cast of characters is stunning. The torture system involves the operations division of the CIA on the implementation side. They rely heavily on contractors, it seems, in torturing people. And a special role is apparently played by a couple of psychologists. (from Harper’s Magazine) p.s. Happy Valentine’s Day 🙂 Originally posted on Feb 14, 2008. Reprinted courtesy of ReRuns plug-in.
08/14 [GEEKY] Can your current reader/aggregator do this? — Check out the latest summary of amazing featsby BlogBridge. I don’t want to be too cheeky, but there are some pretty cool things that you get from BlogBridge (for free) that you can’t get anywhere else. BlogBridge is definitely a serious tool which is why I bit my tongue and marked this post ‘geeky’ but really it’s also, as you know, my labor of love, so I can’t resist showing it off. Hope you take a moment to try it! Originally posted on Sep 25, 2007. Reprinted courtesy of ReRuns plug-in.
08/13 Blind to Bargains – Jeremy Wagstaff — Here is a full article written by Jeremy Wagstaff… > Blind to Bargains If We Won’t Pay for Software, People Won’t Write It April 20, 2007 Computers would be nothing without programs to run on them, so why do we spend so much time drooling over our hardware — physical bits and pieces — and so little...
08/09 Finally, a simple cell phone! — My Treo 600 recently died a hard death. I had to learn a new cell phone, a relatively low end one, and it was a serious undertaking. Someone I know recently did a 90 minute drive in 3.5 hours because their car’s GPS inadvertently was se...
08/07 Why is this funny? — Picture 1-43 Originally posted on Jan 01, 2006. Reprinted courtesy of ReRuns plug-in.
07/28 Cuil vs. Google — By now if you probably heard about Cuil, the new search engine that claims to be the biggest (since when does size matter when it comes to search engines?) And secondly is being given a [PR pass because it was created by ‘ex-Google employees’](http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/27/cuill-launches-a-ma...
07/26 Should he have signed the letter? — Ok this is a bit irreverent. There’s been a spat relating to the note that Barack Obama wrote and left in the stones of the Western Wall (the “wailing wall”). This tradition goes way back. The [spat is about the fact that someone pulled it out and photographed it and it’s been all over the papers.]...
07/23 Credit card activation: security or reverse marketing? — So I received two new Discover cards, with supposed enhanced security features. I didn’t ask for them, they just sent them to me. I got a new account number which is a pain because various merchants directly bill my credit card and they will have to be updated, by me. You know the little sticker...
07/21 Towards better memory — An interesting, quirky, though-provoking — memorable article in Wired about Memory: > “[snip…]SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you’ve learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you’ve forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you’re about to forget.” (from Want to Remember Everything You’ll Ever Learn?)
07/20 Heresy: Wall-E just so-so — Yeah I know all the reviews have been raving – “Best movie this year” – “Will change your life” – and so on. I saw this new animated film last night. It did have really wonderful “Star Wars”-class visuals but as an overall story and movie experience, well, it was fine. Not even as good as Toy Story. Sorry.
07/19 Eye-fi wireless enabled memory card for your camera — If you haven’t seen this and you shoot a lot of digital photos, you will love this product; also seems like a great gift: “Upload photos automatically from your digital camera to your computer and favorite photo site with the world’s first wireless memory card.” See Eye-Fi web site.
07/18 Did you know what happened to Seymour Papert? — The other day I came across this article in the Boston Globe about one of the greats of Computer Science, Seymour Papert, inventor of the seminal Logo programming language and many other important accomplishments. > “He ...
07/15 Helpful iPhone tip (even though I don’t have one) — I saw this somewhere and I thought I would share as it seems very useful, yet obscure: > Helpful Tip: To quickly reset your iPhone without wiping anything off it or retethering it to iTunes, hold the volume up button, the home button, and the lock button at the same time. Keep holding it even after the “Slide to Power Off” appears, eventually it will flash totally off and then you’ll get the Apple logo. Let go then.